Excerpt from Elements of the Critical Philosophy: Containing a Concise Account of Its Origin and Tendency Frederic the Great collected a number of foreign philo fophers round him, who, in a great meafure, merely to pay adulation, and from felfilh views, openly profefi'ed, like him, infidelity and fcepticifm. This circumftance, fiom the novelty of the thing, and from the admiration in which the character of F rederie was held, had an almof't magical influence on all the oplnlons of the age. It would, however, be equal to ingra titude towards the manes 'of this furprifing monarch, to 0 mit mentioning in this place, that the fyflem of his own practi cal philofophy has been held out, both by divines and laymen, as complete and downright Atheifm wheteas it is now clear and uniformly admitted by found and unprejudiced inquirers, that it amounted to nothing more than fimple Deifm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.